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Olaf Scholz is an idiot.

MolotovCocktail says

They must think Germans are stupid!

"Why not? Our elites think the same thing of us."

No. This will ensure that the AfD candidates will be elected in a landslide.

The_Deplorable says

No. This will ensure that the AfD candidates will be elected in a landslide.

They can't win if they are too dead to run. This is Germany, not New Jersey.

https://twitter.com/scientificecon/status/1962757193372983359

A Syrian man in Germany says he does not like Germany because it is not a Muslim country and Germans are "non-believers."

When asked which is better, the Germans who welcomed him or the Muslim countries that did not welcome him, he responds: "The Muslims."

Whenever Germans head to the polls, one question dominates all debate: How strong will the populist AfD become this time? Last Sunday’s district and mayoral elections in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW)—Germany’s most populous state—provided a stark answer.

While Germany’s state broadcaster spoke of a “sigh of relief” when the ruling CDU emerged victorious with 33.3% of votes, keeping the AfD in third place at 14.5%, this narrative of triumph masks a far more troubling reality for Germany’s political elite.

Minister President Henrik Wüst, despite his CDU’s electoral win, admitted he could no longer “sleep peacefully” given the AfD’s result. His anxiety is well-founded. Though his party technically won, the CDU achieved its worst post-war result in the state. Meanwhile, the traditionally dominant SPD collapsed to a mere 22.1%—also its worst performance ever, following an already disastrous showing five years prior.

The AfD, by contrast, nearly tripled its 2020 result under circumstances that would have crippled any other party.

This past month I started noticing Rammstein videos for the 1st time. They're pretty good! I just wish I understood what they were saying.

Maga_Chaos_Monkey says

This past month I started noticing Rammstein videos for the 1st time. They're pretty good! I just wish I understood what they were saying.

Loved "Deutschland" and especially "Zick Zack" (Snip Snip) and the song close to my heart, "Dicke Titen" Very creative stuff, like the DDR Future and the "Red String" as a laser tying everything together.

While China gets cheap energy and increases production, German companies now get expensive energy and have to decrease production. This is a death spiral.

German police raid the home of renowned media critic and WELT columnist Norbert Bolz for an ironic tweet, in latest case of insane speech repression to hit the Federal Republic

Thousands of ordinary Germans have suffered similar intimidation, but today's raid is the first we know of to target a mainstream media figure.



In it, he makes light of one of the routine idiocies propounded by the leftist newspaper taz. In this case, taz had just published (and tweeted) the headline “Germany is awakening!” in response to a petition to strip the AfD politician Björn Höcke of his right to run for office and a renewed wave of demands to ban Höcke’s party. The problem is that the phrase “Germany is awakening” – “Deutschland erwacht” – is basically identical to a notorious Nazi slogan, specifically, an SA lyric.1 This would be why taz almost immediately revised their headline to something innocuous. Before they could do that, however, Bolz noticed their screwup and wrote that “Deutschland awaken!” was “a good translation of ‘woke,’” in this way drawing attention to their mistake and turning their words against them.

That happened on 20 January 2024. This morning, police investigating this nearly two year-old tweet raided Bolz’s Berlin home to seize evidence. They had with them a search warrant approved by the Tiergarten District Court. According to NiUS, investigators had earlier asked Bolz to surrender his devices voluntarily, but he refused. The search warrant lists the large number of replies, retweets and likes that Bolz’s post received as a criminally aggravating factor. Before departing, a police officer advised Bolz “to be more careful in future.”

Bolz stands under suspicion of having violated Section 86a of the German Criminal Code, which forbids the “Use of symbols of unconstitutional and terrorist organisations” – even though his obviously ironic, critical tweet does not actually violate this statute. It goes without saying that nobody at taz has been accused of any crime, although they are the ones whom Bolz merely called out for using the forbidden phrase in the first place.